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Category: Blog
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The CFPB intends to identify ways to simplify and streamline the existing mortgage servicing rules
Category: Press release
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Agencies Propose Interagency Guidance on Reconsiderations of Value for Residential Real Estate Valuations
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Update on student loan borrowers during payment suspension
Category: Blog
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Algorithms, artificial intelligence, and fairness in home appraisals
Category: Press release
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Agencies Request Comment on Quality Control Standards for Automated Valuation Models Proposed Rule
Category: Blog
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Mortgage data shows that borrowers could save $100 a month (or more) by choosing cheaper lenders
Category: Blog
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Building resilience and durability into mortgage rules
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes New Consumer Protections for Homeowners Seeking Clean Energy Financing
Category: Office of Research Publication Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing and Consumer Financial Outcomes
Category: Blog
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Adjustable-rate loans are changing, because a widely-used interest rate index expires in June
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Rule to Facilitate Orderly Wind Down of LIBOR
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Guidance to Protect Homeowners from Illegal Collection Tactics on Zombie Mortgages
Category: Blog
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Zombie second mortgages: When collectors come for long forgotten home loans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Completing the LIBOR Transition
Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra on Zombie Mortgage Debt
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Who gets sued in civil courts? Civil judgments are not evenly distributed
Category: Report Consumer Credit and the Removal of Medical Collections from Credit Reports
Category: Press release
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CFPB Announces Revised Methodology for Determining Average Prime Offer Rates
Category: Office of Research Publication Insights into Consumers’ Financial Standing and Distress from 2019-2022: Evidence from a CDFI
Category: Press release
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2022 HMDA Data on Mortgage Lending Now Available
Category: Blog
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Protecting homeowners from discriminatory home appraisals
Category: Blog
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CFPB starting mandated review of mortgage loan originator rules
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights Junk Fees Special Edition, Issue 29, Winter 2023
Category: Office of Research Publication Report on the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Rule Voluntary Review
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Use of Buy Now, Pay Later: Insights from the CFPB Making Ends Meet Survey
Category: Blog
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Seeking public input: new proposal for alternative mortgage disclosures for construction loans
Category: Press release
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CFPB Shuts Down Mortgage Loan Business of RMK Financial for Repeat Offenses Against Military Families
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Guidance to Protect Mortgage Borrowers from Pay-to-Play Digital Comparison-Shopping Platforms
Category: Director's statement
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Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Mortgage Comparison Shopping in a Time of Higher Interest Rates
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Credit score transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Category: Blog
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For many struggling mortgage borrowers with home equity, selling their home could be an alternative to foreclosure
Category: Blog
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CFPB releases updates to mortgage servicing exam procedures
Category: Blog
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What’s ahead for Wells Fargo and its customers
Category: Speech
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Deputy Director Martinez’s Prepared Remarks at the National Fair Housing Alliance Event Previewing “Our America: Lowballed”
Category: Blog
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Office of Research Blog: Even as rents increase, fewer people are buying
Category: Office of Research Publication Making Ends Meet in 2022: Insights from the CFPB Making Ends Meet survey
Category: Blog
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Mortgage financing options in a higher interest rate environment
Category: Press release
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CFPB & FHFA news release announcing the publication of updated loan-level data for public use collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Savings App Strategies and Savings Outcomes
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Higher interest rates leading to higher debt burdens for mortgage borrowers
Category: Blog
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Protecting borrowers’ control over their money
Category: Press release
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CFPB Takes Action Against Carrington Mortgage for Cheating Homeowners out of CARES Act Rights
Category: Press release
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CFPB Supervisory Examinations Find Credit Reporting Failures, Junk Fees, and Mishandling of COVID-19 Protections
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 28, Fall 2022
Category: Blog
Archived
Office of Research blog: Update on student loan borrowers during payment suspension
Category: Press release
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Agencies Announce Threshold for Smaller Loan Exemption from Appraisal Requirements for Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans
Category: Blog
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Mortgage borrowers can challenge inaccurate appraisals through the reconsideration of value process
Category: Blog
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Examining the potential impact of high vehicle costs on Americans with deep subprime credit scores
Category: Blog
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Help us spur new opportunities for homeowners in the mortgage market
Category: Press release
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CFPB Launches Effort to Spur New Opportunities for Homeowners in the Mortgage Market
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the Exchequer Club Fireside Chat
Category: Office of Research Publication Data Point: 2021 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Finances in Rural Appalachia
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Details Family Finances and Debt in Rural Appalachia
Category: Blog
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Exploring the connection between financial assistance for medical care and medical collections
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra's Remarks on the Announcement Regarding the Cancellation of Loans for ITT Tech Students
Category: Office of Research Publication Understanding Required Financial Assistance in Medical Care
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at a Joint DOJ, CFPB Press Event on the Trident Enforcement Action
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Housing inflation is hitting low-income renters
Category: Press release
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CFPB, DOJ Order Trident Mortgage Company to Pay More Than $22 Million for Deliberate Discrimination Against Minority Families
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Credit Trends Report: Paid and Low-Balance Medical Collections on Consumer Credit Reports
Category: Blog
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Banks’ overdraft/NSF fee revenues evolve along with their policies
Category: Blog
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Using special purpose credit programs to serve unmet credit needs
Category: Blog
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Rethinking the approach to regulations
Category: Blog
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CFPB publishes Beginner’s Guide to Accessing and Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Financial challenges faced by recently widowed older adults
Category: Report Mortgage Servicing COVID-19 Pandemic Response Metrics: New Observations from Data Reported by Sixteen Servicers for May-December 2021
Category: Press release
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CFPB Releases Report on Mortgage Servicing Metrics
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Profiles of older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 26, Spring 2022
Category: Office of Research Publication Student Loan Borrowers Potentially At-Risk when Payment Suspension Ends
Category: Blog
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Climate risk should be considered in housing decisions
Category: Blog
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Helping borrowers hold mortgage servicers accountable
Category: Office of Research Publication Credit card late fees
Category: Office of Research Publication New Data on the Characteristics of Mortgage Borrowers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Category: Office of Research Publication Emergency Savings and Financial Security: Insights from the Making Ends Meet Survey and Consumer Credit Panel
Category: Blog
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The Fed is raising interest rates. What does that mean for borrowers and savers?
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of Deputy Director Zixta Martinez at the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals Convention & Housing Policy Summit
Category: Blog
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Using the Homeowner Assistance Fund program to help borrowers prevent foreclosure
Category: Blog
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If you’re a homeowner struggling to make housing-related payments due to the pandemic, help is available or coming soon
Category: Blog
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The hidden cost of junk fees
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer finances during the pandemic: Insights from the Making Ends Meet Survey
Category: Blog
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Making Ends Meet series: Consumer finances during the pandemic
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and DOJ Put Landlords and Mortgage Servicers on Notice About Servicemembers’ and Veterans’ Rights
Category: Blog
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Seven examples of unfair practices and other violations by mortgage servicers: CFPB supervision activities uncover red flags
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 25, Fall 2021
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Highlights Supervisory Findings of Wide-Ranging Violations of Law in 2021
Category: Blog
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The LIBOR index for adjustable-rate loans is being discontinued: here’s what to watch for
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Final Rule to Facilitate Transition from LIBOR
Category: Director's statement
Archived
Statement of Director Rohit Chopra on the LIBOR Transition Rule
Category: Director's statement
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Statement by CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on HUD Guidance on Special Purpose Credit Programs
Category: Office of Research Publication Data Point: Checking Account Overdraft at Financial Institutions Served by Core Processors
Category: Press release
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Agencies Announce Threshold for Smaller Loan Exemption from Appraisal Requirements for Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans
Category: Office of Research Publication Data Point: Overdraft/NSF Fee Reliance Since 2015 – Evidence from Bank Call Reports
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action to Prevent Avoidable Foreclosures
Category: Office of Research Publication Disputes on Consumer Credit Reports
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Discontinuation of LIBOR
Category: Blog
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Deadline to request initial forbearance for HUD/FHA, USDA, or VA backed loans is extended until National Emergency ends
Category: Blog
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New rule ensures mortgage servicers provide options to potentially vulnerable borrowers exiting forbearance
Category: Office of Research Publication Subprime Auto Loan Outcomes by Lender Type

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